The National Basketball Association ranks as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the world. Fans of the league suffer through the interminable NBA-free months of August and September in anticipation of the start of a new season. But despite its popularity, there are some issues the league … Read more
That’s right. The 2021 NBA Play-In Tournament is now over, and it’s time to assess. If pundits can grade a team’s draft performance on the very next day and before any draftee suits up for a game at the professional level, there’s no problem with handing out grades for the … Read more
The challenges of the last couple of months have sent many a sports enthusiast on a hunt for the opportunity to relive some of the happier moments provided by their favorite teams, particularly in the absence of live sports programming. Fans of the NBA’s New York Knickerbockers already knew of … Read more
For each of the National Basketball Association’s 30 teams, the one-third mark of the regular season comes with eight minutes left in the second quarter of the 27th game. With each NBA team either having reached that point or slated to this week for the 2019-20 season, now’s a good … Read more
There’s a basketball cliche that states “a playoff series doesn’t start until the home team loses a game.” While I’m not down with that one, it’s become clear that “the NBA Playoffs don’t start until the first round ends.” After a mostly lackluster first round of action where only the … Read more
To date, twelve of the sixteen teams that qualified for the 2018 NBA Playoffs have been eliminated. Of those twelve, zero had a legitimate shot at representing their conference at the NBA Finals next month, let alone winning the championship. Of the four remaining teams, one is the defending champion … Read more
